WORKS, Emanuel Gat Dance, 2017/2019
WORKS was originally created as a collaboration between Emanuel Gat Dance and Le Ballet de Lyon, mixing ten dancers from each company. Two years after its creation, Emanuel recreated a new version with dancers only from Emanuel Gat Dance, further developing the ideas and themes explored in the first version of the work.
WORKS is a dance piece celebrating dancers. Their uniqueness, virtuosity, engagement, fearlessness, sense of responsibility and humanity. A group of 10 dancers, all long time collaborators of Emanuel Gat Dance, sharing years of a joint artistic collaboration as well as an intimate knowledge of Gat’s creative process, fill the stage in a frantic succession of choreographic fragments evolving through various constellations, formats, musical environments and choreographic procedures.
Credits –
Choreography, lights: Emanuel Gat
Music:
- Richard Strauss, Im Abendrot. Gewandhausorchester directed by Kurt Masur – Singer : Jessye Norman.
- Emanuel Gat, MnM
- Emanuel Gat, SARA
- J.S Bach, The well tempered clavier, book 2 Prelude #4 in C Sharp minor BWV 873, Piano : Glenn Gould
- Chick-P, Business Bach
- Irving Berlin, They Say It’s Wonderful, The Chordettes
- Awir Leon, MANU 15
- Nina Simone, Sinnerman, (Live in New-York, 1965)
Costumes: Thomas Bradley, Emanuel Gat
Created in collaboration with and performed by: Thomas Bradley, Robert Bridger, Péter Juhász, Michael Löhr, Emma Mouton, Eddie Oroyan, Genevieve Osborne, Karolina Szymura, Milena Twiehaus, Sara Wilhelmsson
Performance History –
TENWORKS (for Jean-Paul)
Montpellier Danse 2017
L’Agora, Montpellier, France
WORKS
L’Arsenal, Metz, France
Scène nationale d’Albi, Albi, France
Vaison Danses 2019
Théâtre Antique, Vaison-la-Romaine, France (Excerpts)
Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Lowry, Manchester, UK
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, UK
Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, France
Théâtre Quintaou, Anglet, France
Production: Emanuel Gat Dance
Coproduction: Festival Montpellier Danse, Scène Nationale d’Albi
Coproduction Milena & Michael: Maison de la Danse de Lyon
With the help of Conseil Départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône and the Région Sud - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Emanuel Gat Dance acknowledges the support of the city of Istres, of the French Ministry of Culture and of the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Photography by Julia Gat